SoTotallyLittleWood 367 Project
Day 28
"Soulmates." - Part one.
Prompt: "Imagine when you're born you have a word or a sentence wrote on your wrist what says something what your future lover would say. You go on a mission to find them." (Creds to Tumblr.)
Toby's mother and father had met due to having some sort of weird writing on their wrist. They can't remember what it had exactly said on it due to the fact that it always disappears after you have met them - they call it your 'soulmate' they think it's the person who you'll eventually get married to and have a child with or something similar but the trick is, the soul apparently always knows who it's going to be. You just have to read your wrist and then find out who that person is. It took Toby's mum quite a while according to her, but in the end she found him - the man is now Toby's dad. However, that was some time ago. Toby's mum and dad didn't expect it to happen to Toby until they were eventually told that it happens to everyone when they reach 15-16. They don't know why it's like a specific age, they think its cause that you're grown up and ready to do stuff at your own pace when you're that age, according to the council anyway. Many people have tried to wash it off, but the council have said multiple times 'It can't be washed off no matter how many times you attempt. It stays with you until you find out who it's connected to and when you marry that person." People have also said that it could be similar to a tattoo - in a sense that it never came off. However many people have been warned that you only get 5 chances to find the person who it could be connected to, and if you never find them - you lose your entire memory. However, when you meet them - you only have a month to marry them if not, you have to say 'goodbye'.
Today, Toby had turned 15 years old and it was his time to shine and get the tattoo what he was hoping for, he didn't know what kind of person he liked and he didn't know what kind of person he expected either so he was just hoping whoever it was, was going to be a nice person. Toby cares more about personality then looks, though having a nice smile is good as well. In a few minutes when he had just been born, it would appear. Toby was very excited. He waited a few more minutes.
~ A few more minutes later~
A gleaming light came through the window and all of a sudden, Toby felt a stabbing pain, it felt like a needle or something. He gently screamed and his mother and father rushed in and saw the light - what was still shining through the window, they both mumbled, "Oh my little boy is about to be grown up." Toby grinned, 'It's time.' he said to himself. In a flash, it had appeared. A sentence had been engraved and tattooed to his wrist, Toby read it, and blinked a few times, 'Today I'll save the plants!' it had written on it. Toby kept blinking for a good few minutes and then his mum came over and grabbed Toby's wrist and stared at it, "'Today I'll save the plants!' Hmm... This is an interesting one." his mum had said. Toby likes interesting so he was definitely going to enjoy this. Toby stumbled over to his bed-side drawer and got out a notepad and a pen from the pot and wrote down, on a blank page, about what sort of ideas it could be. It ranged from, 'Tree hug', 'Plant lover', 'Green thumb', 'nature person.', 'Nature lover.' and most of all, 'Friendly and free-spirited.' Toby was to say the least, ecstatic to meet the person and was so excited because this person was to be seen as his "soulmate." - Someone who is connected to you via your soul and that's good because soulmates are seen as people who you will last forever with and will always be together.
He set out on a journey, well not a massive journey, just a walk through the city - kind of journey. He lived in London, and London was a massive place and he was so happy he's here, because normally the soulmate you're connected to lives in the same place as you - in this case, it would be London. Toby knew that he only had a month to find the person, however he thought that a month was a long time. It was only the 1st of November right now, so he had 29 days left - since there's 30 days in November.
Recently, an app called Pokémon Go has just come out and that means that everyone is more or less on the streets looking for Pokemon and catching them and due to this, Toby thought that this adventure was going to be easy. He pulled out his phone, (iPhone 5) and then he opened up the Pokémon Go app and logged in and started walking, he had a buddy - it was a growlithe Pokémon. One of Toby's favourite Pokémon, he didn't decide to give it a name - so it was just called Growlithe, like usual.
A few minutes into the adventure, and he was just walking - he found some Pokémon like gengar, zubat and some others and hatched a few eggs which was good. He was staring down at his phone whilst walking and didn't notice the lamppost (now kids, always look at the road and street.) and stumbled into it, "Oops.", he stood up - wiping his pants down with the dirt and then his heart skipped a beat when he noticed who he stumbled into. It was a teenage boy, or maybe older - around 18 to 22. He had never seen him before. The boy was wearing a lime green shirt, black skinny jeans, black with a hint of green shoes and a green and black hat, this guy had a lot to do with green with his outfit. Looks like he enjoyed green. "I am so sorry for bumping into you! I got distracted by playing Pokémon Go!" Toby said worriedly. The guy started chuckling, he rolled his sleeve up and lent him a hand and then Toby accepted it and managed to stand up. Except, when he was standing up - Toby noticed the boys wrist, a tattoo. He couldn't read what he said so he was trying to work it out. "You okay, you didn't hurt yourself right?" The guy asked.
Toby ignored him, more or less blanking the question. "Mm?" The guy said, Toby blinked and jumped,
"Oh! Uh, sorry. What did you say, sorry?" Toby said scratching his head.
"Ha-ha no problem, just wondering if you're okay?" The boy asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Toby chuckled, stretching his arm over to his head to scratch the back of it and nervously chuckle. The boy noticed Toby's tattoo and said, "Hey... your tattoo? You have one?" The boy asked. "Oh ya, i'm Martyn - Martyn Littlewood."
"Yeah, I'm Toby Cottrell. Yeah, I only got it a few days ago actually." Toby responded. Martyn smiled in glee, he was happy that someone else had the tattoo that he had, "What does yours say?!" Martyn shouted gleefully.
"Uhh, it's 'Today I'll save the plants!' It's kinda weird and stupid I know." Toby said shyfully. Martyn gasped, it reminded Martyn of him, 'hmm.' Martyn thought. "Oh cool, Mine's 'I want to be the kindest person ever!' It's also unusual and I guess I wasn't expecting it because it's so cheerful and I'm not that cheerful I guess." Martyn replied. Toby laughed at this response, "Ha. Anyway, what're you doing roaming around and walking into stuff?" Toby said whilst grinning. Martyn slightly blushed at this, "Oh, I decided to go on a Pokémon GO hunt." Martyn said. Toby laughed,
"Cool. I am as well! Want to tag along with me since I don't know the area and figured that you can give me directions perhaps?" Toby asked, Martyn nodded as a sign of agreement. They discussed their levels, Toby was a level 35 as a member of team instinct, Martyn was a level 40 as a member of team instinct, also. They were both mutually glad that they were on the same team, which meant no rivals. They also had their team Pokémon with them, Toby had a growlithe – a normal and a fire which was currently level 50. Martyn had a level 45 Leafeon, they both laughed at the Pokémon because Leafeon (sometimes nicknamed Leafy) was a level 45, Toby's level on his character was level 45, his Pokémon Growlithe – who had no nickname, was a level 50 and that was Martyn's character level.
"So, how long have you been playing for now?" Martyn asked,|
"Ah a few months. Not especially long I wouldn't say. Yourself?" Toby replied.
"I've been playing for about a year, or whenever it came out. I managed to cheat my way to get the APK because I had a terrible phone which wasn't compatible with it when it came out… so I downloaded the APK file to cheat it. Since then, I've got a new and better phone." Martyn smiled, showing Toby his phone. Toby had a black iPhone 4 and Martyn had a white iPhone6S. They were happy that they met.
They explored the city for a while until 10pm, and they started their journey at 10am in the morning, so it was an action packed fun day. They exchanged numbers and hugged each other (as friends) and then Martyn went home and Toby took a train back to Liverpool, a 3-4 hour journey, wasn't the most fun and unfortunately for Toby his phone was dying so he couldn't really do much. 'I'm sure I bought it…' Toby stated to himself whilst on the train, he zipped open his bag and got out his portable phone charger, useful and switched his phone off and had a quick nap.
Mean whilst, when Martyn got home – his parents were kind of worried because he had been out for a while and hadn't heard from him whatsoever and thought that it'd be embarrassing for them to contact Martyn so they didn't. Martyn opened the door and walked in, his mum was glad to see him home and gave him a hug, "I'm fine!" Martyn chuckled kind of being strangled, luckily he was okay. "I met a guy today named Toby! We met whilst playing Pokémon go! He was super nice and polite and he came from Liverpool, I accidently walked into him which was my fault cause I was staring down at my phone looking for wild Pokémon. It was fun and he had taken a train to London and so wanted to join me and my adventure so I let him!" Martyn said gleefully. Martyn's parents both took a look at each other and grinned. "What?" Martyn asked, raising an eyebrow. His parents stared down at Martyn's wrist, "You don't think!?" Martyn asked which caused his mother to nod her head which made Martyn's heart to a massive thump noise and he was so happy and he was blushing really bad.
All the train ride back, Toby could only think of one thing – Martyn. Whilst walking around London, Toby had took a realization that he talked about plants quite a lot, which then Toby stared down at his wrists and then blushed when he noticed what it had said again, 'Today I will save the plants!' and Martyn's leader Pokémon was a grass type, Leafeon. He knew it had to be him… he just knew it. Toby blushed super hard by now and was super happy because of this. He knew he was good.
~END OF PART 1.
